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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-11-27 11:06:37 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-11-27 11:06:37 +0900
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Merge branch 'tb/add-renormalize'
"git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other "convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data. * tb/add-renormalize: add: introduce "--renormalize"
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@@ -232,8 +232,7 @@ From a clean working directory:
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$ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
-$ git read-tree --empty # Clean index, force re-scan of working directory
-$ git add .
+$ git add --renormalize .
$ git status # Show files that will be normalized
$ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"
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@@ -328,6 +327,9 @@ You can declare that a filter turns a content that by itself is unusable
into a usable content by setting the filter.<driver>.required configuration
variable to `true`.
+Note: Whenever the clean filter is changed, the repo should be renormalized:
+$ git add --renormalize .
+
For example, in .gitattributes, you would assign the `filter`
attribute for paths.